Lord Watts
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(8 years, 11 months ago)
Lords Chamber Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen 
        
    
        
    
        The noble Lord is absolutely right. I know that the Secretary of State talked to Simon Bailey, who is the national policy policing lead for ACPO. Each individual is going to have a single police lead. Of course, these will be shared—in fact, five police forces will be engaged in this. As I said, Simon Bailey is very much on this, and is talking to the Secretary of State. I think that that is the way forward.
 Lord Watts (Lab)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Lord Watts (Lab) 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, does the Minister agree that we need to have the highest possible standards of child protection in sport, but this review must not undermine how it is done by volunteers with children on a weekly basis? The last thing that we want to see is adults removing themselves from this position.